{"id":1437,"date":"2018-10-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/05\/mortgage-fraud-is-on-the-increase\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:22:46","slug":"mortgage-fraud-is-on-the-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/05\/mortgage-fraud-is-on-the-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"CoreLogic Reports Mortgage Fraud is on the Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The&nbsp;Corelogic&nbsp;risk index has continually increased for the last seven quarters<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:900,&quot;335559739&quot;:300}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.corelogic.com\/\">CoreLogic<\/a><span data-fontsize=\"12\">\u00ae<\/span>, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released its latest\u202f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corelogic.com\/about-us\/researchtrends\/mortgage-fraud-trends-report.aspx\">Mortgage Fraud Report<\/a>. The report shows a 12.4 percent year-over-year increase in fraud risk at the end of the second quarter, as measured by the CoreLogic Mortgage Application Fraud Risk Index.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:450}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The analysis found that during the second quarter of 2018, an estimated one in 109 applications, or 0.92 percent of all mortgage applications, contained indications of fraud, compared with the reported one in 122, or 0.82 percent in the second quarter of 2017.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:450}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50243 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-27-at-2_21_46-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"722\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\n<p>The CoreLogic Mortgage Fraud Report analyzes the collective level of loan application fraud risk experienced in the mortgage industry each quarter. CoreLogic develops the index based on residential mortgage loan applications processed by CoreLogic&nbsp;LoanSafe&nbsp;Fraud Manager<span data-fontsize=\"12\">\u2122<\/span>, a predictive scoring technology. The report includes detailed data for six fraud type indicators that complement the national index: identity, income, occupancy, property, transaction and undisclosed real estate debt.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:450}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s trend continues to show an increase in mortgage fraud risk year over year,\u201d said Bridget Berg, principal of Fraud Solutions Strategy for CoreLogic. \u201cBecause home prices are rising, and demand is strong, most mortgage fraud in this type of market is motivated by bona fide borrowers trying to qualify for a mortgage. Undisclosed real estate liabilities, credit repair, questionable down payment sources and income falsification are the most likely misrepresentations.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:450}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Report Highlights:<\/strong><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:450}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">New York, New Jersey and Florida remain the top three states for mortgage application fraud risk, maintaining the same positions as last year.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:0}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\">All of the top 10 riskiest states showed increases in risk year over year.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:0}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\">States with the greatest year-over-year risk growth include New Mexico, Mississippi, Illinois, Oklahoma and Texas. Of these, New Mexico, Illinois and Oklahoma now have risk levels greater than the National Index, which grew from 133 to 149 year-over-year.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:0}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\">The conforming loans for home purchases segment shows the greatest risk increase by loan type.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:0}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Income fraud risk had the greatest increase year over year, followed by occupancy and transaction fraud. Property and undisclosed real estate debt showed declines in risk.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:0}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>National Mortgage Origination Fraud Index (Q3 2010 \u2013 Q2 2018)<\/strong><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:450}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:450}\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corelogic.com\/mortgagefraudreport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View the full CoreLogic Mortgage Fraud Report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Corelogic&nbsp;risk index has continually increased for the last seven quarters&nbsp; CoreLogic\u00ae, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released its latest\u202fMortgage Fraud Report. The report shows a 12.4 percent year-over-year increase in fraud risk at the end of the second quarter, as measured by the CoreLogic Mortgage Application Fraud Risk Index.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15802,"featured_media":4822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3255],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CoreLogic Reports Mortgage Fraud is on the Increase<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"CoreLogic\u00ae, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released its latest\u202fMortgage Fraud Report. 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